The Big Lie Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/the-big-lie/ A platform for change Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:07:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 ‘Cold hard threat to democracy’: GOP sowing chaos at polls even before Election Day https://flux.community/julia-conley/2022/10/cold-hard-threat-to-democracy-gop-sowing-chaos-at-polls-even-before-election-day/ Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:00:34 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12716 Government watchdogs are warning that Republican are operating a well-funded, well-organized campaign to sow “an unprecedented level of suspicion and unfounded doubt” in this year’s midterm elections by lodging dubious legal challenges even before Election Day arrives and training thousands on how to create confusion at the polls. As the Associated Press reported Thursday, more than 100 lawsuits have already been […]

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]]> Armed ‘poll watchers’ in Arizona heighten alarm over right-wing voter intimidation https://flux.community/jake-johnson/2022/10/armed-poll-watchers-in-arizona-heighten-alarm-over-right-wing-voter-intimidation/ Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:00:55 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12666 Video footage released Friday night showing armed individuals sitting near a ballot drop box in Mesa, Arizona is heightening alarm over right-wing intimidation efforts as early voting kicks off across the United States. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office told a local ABC affiliate that it is investigating several individuals who were watching a Mesa voting location on Friday. The department confirmed that […]

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]]> ‘Makes me physically ill’: Footage shows DeSantis’ election police force in action https://flux.community/julia-conley/2022/10/makes-me-physically-ill-footage-shows-desantis-election-police-force-in-action/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:00:42 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12628 Never-before-seen police body camera footage released on Tuesday reveals that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to punish Florida residents for alleged “voter fraud” is targeting not “scheming fraudsters,” as one journalist said, but people who were led to believe they were legally allowed to vote. Through public records requests, the Tampa Bay Times obtained several videos of arrests […]

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]]> ‘About damn time’: Jan. 6 panel unanimously votes to subpoena ex-president Donald Trump https://flux.community/jessica-corbett/2022/10/about-damn-time-jan-6-panel-unanimously-votes-to-subpoena-ex-president-donald-trump/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:00:42 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12585 The U.S. House panel probing the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol unanimously voted Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump “to provide evidence as part of the committee’s investigation.” The panel’s hearing—expected to be the last before next month’s midterm elections—largely focused on Trump’s role in the attack. In what critics now call his “Big Lie,” […]

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]]> States are stepping up prosecutions for voter fraud, but who gets the harshest punishment? https://flux.community/barbara-rodriguez/2022/10/states-are-stepping-up-prosecutions-for-voter-fraud-but-who-gets-the-harshest-punishment/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:00:52 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12529 Crystal Mason is waiting for resolution. On Election Day 2016, at her mother’s urging, the Texas woman went to her local precinct to vote in the presidential election. Mason’s name did not appear on the voter rolls, but a poll worker said she could cast a provisional ballot that would get additional review. The affidavit […]

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]]> How ​Christian nationalism fueled the insurrection and threatens democracy https://flux.community/peter-montgomery/2022/10/how-christian-nationalism-fueled-the-insurrection-and-threatens-democracy/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:00:03 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12512 Public hearings by the House ​select committee investigating the Jan​. 6, 2021, insurrection have given Americans a much clearer understanding of all the ways ​then-President Donald Trump and his allies tried to keep him in power by overturning the results of the presidential election. Another public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 28, with the committee’s final […]

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]]> Ted Cruz votes against bipartisan bill to prevent another Jan. 6 https://flux.community/matthew-choi/2022/09/ted-cruz-votes-against-bipartisan-bill-to-prevent-another-jan-6/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:00:31 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12433 U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, broke from his own party in voting against a bipartisan bill that would bar him from singlehandedly objecting to presidential election results, as he did on Jan. 6, 2021. The bill, dubbed the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, aims to prevent a constitutional crisis like the one that […]

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]]> Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump’s stolen election rhetoric https://flux.community/barbara-rodriguez-and-errin-haines/2022/09/stacey-abrams-it-is-wrong-to-compare-her-refusal-to-concede-with-trumps-stolen-election-rhetoric/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:00:55 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12371 Stacey Abrams on Monday cautioned against conflating her refusal to concede in the 2018 Georgia governor’s race with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, calling the latter wrong and dangerous for democracy. “I will never ever say that it is OK to claim fraudulent outcomes as a way to give yourself […]

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]]> The GOP’s second-largest Big Lie: They care about working class people https://flux.community/robert-reich/2022/09/the-gops-second-largest-big-lie-they-care-about-working-class-people/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:00:15 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12195 Billionaire GOP mega-donor Steve Wynn has some free messaging advice for Republicans, which he proffered in a conference call last Wednesday with Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and Newt Gingrich (the audio was obtained by Politico): He urged the GOP to run TV ads telling average working people that Democrats have funded the IRS to hammer them. […]

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]]> Far-right congressional candidate Laura Loomer predictably refuses to concede https://flux.community/becca-hawkins/2022/08/far-right-congressional-candidate-laura-loomer-predictably-refuses-to-concede/ Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:00:52 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12153 Laura Loomer—a far-right activist so extreme that she would have easily eclipsed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as the most far-right congresswoman—lost her bid for the GOP nomination to Congress in Florida’s 11th Congressional District. The Associated Press called the race in favor of longtime Republican Rep. Daniel Webster late Tuesday night. Webster, who was the preferred candidate of religious-right […]

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